“Emporia, Kansas, is my town.” “What do you do for a living?” “I’m a hog raiser.” “When did you come to the city?” “Yesterday morning.” “What did you come here for?” “Oh, just to look around.” The captain smiled. “How much money did you have when you got off the train here yesterday morning?” “I had two hundred dollars in paper money and some small change.” “How much have you spent since you arrived here?” “I spent twenty-five dollars for a suit of clothes and fifteen dollars for an overcoat. I paid a dollar for a room and I spent about five dollars around town.” “Is that all? Are you sure, now? Think again.” “Yes, that’s all,” said the hog man. “You’re a liar,” Madam Singleton said in a cold, level voice. “You gave Julia ten dollars.” “Now, now, Kate,” said the captain, “don’t get excited. I’ll take care of this thing all right.” Then to the hog man: “Guess you forgot about that ten dollars, hey?” “Yes, I forgot that,” he said meekly. “All right; now, how much have you in your pockets?” He took out some bills and counted them. “Forty-five dollars is all I have.” The captain counted them and returned them. “That’s correct. Now, which girl took your money?” The man pointed out the youngest girl of the bunch. She was about twenty or twenty-two, a plump girl with a boyish face and lots of black hair. She was pleasant looking, but not pretty, and she did not look as worn and tired as the others. She looked straight at him but never opened her mouth. The lawyer-looking man said to her: “Julia, did you take that man’s money?” “No,” she answered. “Take all these women in and have the matron search them. Madam Singleton, you have no objection to being searched, have you?” smiled the captain. “None at all, captain, only make it short and sweet. I am losing time and money here.” They all trooped off to a room down the hall. An officer came out from behind the desk and searched me and the two drunks. We had no fifty-dollar bills, so he told us to sit on a bench in front of his desk. The lawyer, or bondsman, or fixer, or whatever he was, paced up and down the room nervously. The captain had gone back to his office. In a few minutes a big, mannish-looking woman with red hands and a tough walk came along. “Well, what did you find?” said the lawyer. “Nothing. They didn’t have a hundred dollars among them.” The lawyer then hunted up the detective and the hog man. The detective got the captain. The matron made her report and the officer who searched me and the other two did the same. The captain turned to the hog man. “All these people have been searched and your money has not been found. What do you want to do now?” “I want that girl locked up. I know she got my money. I know I had two fifty-dollar bills rolled up with my other bills when I went into that house, and when I got to my room I looked at my money and they were gone.”